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David Feinberg, 37, an Author Who Wrote of Life with AIDS

New York Times (11/04/94) P. A33
Dunlap, David W.

Author and ACT UP member David B. Feinberg died of AIDS on Wednesday at the age of 37. Two of his books, "Eighty-Sixed" and "Spontaneous Combustion,"--both fictional--followed the devestation caused by AIDS of gay life in New York. "Queer and Loathing: Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone" will be published in three weeks. As a member of ACT UP, Mr. Feinberg was arrested multiple times at demonstrations protesting official indifference or hostility, including the disruption of the Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in December 1989. Most recently, however, he criticized that ACT UP "wastes precious time bickering" and "indulging its obsession with the Catholic Church" at a time when he wanted "every argument and action to help save my life."


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